Category: Portfolios
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Matrix | Moscow, ID | November 2019 Trinity: I know why you’re here, Neo. I know what you’ve been doing — why you hardly sleep, why you live alone and why, night after night, you sit by your computer … It’s the question that drives us, Neo. It’s the question that brought you here. You…
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Castoff Couch | Moscow, ID | November 2019 More than 40 years ago, I found a flawless print of Picasso’s “Three Musicians” leaning against a garbage can at the curb. The art didn’t interest me much, but the frame did. So I took it home with the intention of replacing the print with a favorite…
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Grain Shed | St. John, WA | November 2019 A wheat town’s skyline of grain elevators doesn’t offer many surprises. After all, function dictates form: Tall, so gravity does its job, and wide, so a gazillion grain kernels can be stored. One rarity is the turquoise structure on a hill near downtown St. John. The…
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Old Doorway | Palouse, WA | November 2019 Five days a week I walked to work through the French Quarter with Jules, an alpha-male executive who lived in the apartment above me. As I sat one evening in our building’s courtyard, Jules swept down the stairs dressed as Carol Channing, the Broadway diva. Platinum wig,…
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Red Door | St. John, WA | November 2019 “How concrete everything becomes in the world of spirit when an object — a mere door — evokes images of welcome, security, hesitation and desire. If you were to give an account of all the doors you’ve
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Pumpkin Truck | Colfax, WA | November 2019 Roadside whimsy for the pleasure of passers-by is, in my book, an act of extreme generosity. Those Sasquatch cutouts in the middle of cow pastures don’t tromp out there by themselves. Some landowner had to decide that the surrounding miles of empty highway begged for something interesting,…
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Shoe | East Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 The mystery of fashion bewilders me even into old age. Every year someone declares which clothes are in style and, amazingly, people buy them. I can readily accept almost any apparel if it’s sexy, comfortable or practical, but so much of it isn’t. And so much of…
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Cat | East Wenatchee, WA | November 2019 The big feral cat that bedevils our backyard birds knows her place in the world. She sits high on the fence to sun herself. She creeps low through vines to be invisible. She adapts to conditions as they arrive with no fretting over profit or efficiency or…
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Pot Farm | Malaga, WA | November 2019 The hillside glows with new commerce — a cannabis farm. I’m not a pot user, but I find this row of greenhouses to be an illuminating symbol of our state’s progressiveness. A step, perhaps, towards acceptance and non-judgment. Cops may note an increase in impaired driving but,…
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